The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-05
The MEMPHIS COMMITTEE
ARRIVED AT WASHINGTON AND
READY FOR WORK.
Speaker Carlisle Writes to Randall
Upon Tariff RefOrm-Pacinc
Railroad Accounts.
]. d. C. ATKINS URGED FOR IN
TERSTATE COMMISSIONER.
Manning and Jordan Both to Leave
the Treasury Department About
the LIST Of May.
lsPEoIAL TO TIE AppEALl

ESPECIAL TO THE APPEAL.l
BUREAU CT THE MEMPHIS APPEAL,
No. 1906 F STREET, WASHINGTON, d.
O., February 4-The Senate TODAY
passed the bill 10 provide for holding
terms Of the United States Court at
Txnkaua, Ark. 1t has now got
back to the House for cor currence in
the few unimportant amendments
made by the Senate, which were
noted in these dispatches several days
ago.
Mr.. ZACH TAYLOR
will move an amendme ut adding to 1t
those C ,ses of war claims for anImsls
and supplies which have been adiudi.
Gated by tbs Court of Claims. Of these
there are twenty-eiVht in all, amount
ing tt ab ut Sll8,000, and most Ct
them era the claims Of Te1nesseeans.
The committee is favorahly dspos, d
to the amendment, and Mr.. Taylor is
in hopes of bling able TO carry his
amendment through.
THE INDIAN COMMISSIONERS
is being urged very strongly from all
sections of tue country for a place on
The Board of Railroad Com nissioners
t. carry out the provisions Of the in
ter5tate commerce bill. He seems to
be a very popular map, for, besides
these recommendations, the new legie-
lative bill incr seses his salary as In
dian Commissioned $500 a year.
MEssRs. D. p. MADDEN AND W. W.
sCHooLFIRLD,
Of the committee appointed by the
Memphis Chamber of Commerce to
come here to push the pass sge of the
Memphis br dge bill, have arrived.
The other two members, DR.. d. T.
Porter and John 7. Hillmsn ale ex.
pected later this evening,
THE PRESIDENT APPROVES THE COM.
MERGE BILL,
The signing OF the interstate com.
merce bill by the President was in full
accord with the opinion of Attorney
General Garland, rendered to him on
last Monday, and it is very we'll un-
derstood to be in accord with the
views Of the Cabinet.
THE TARIFF RKFoRMERs.
Speaker Carlisle, acting for the tariff
reformers in the House, has written a
letter to Representative Randall de-
finiDg the position of the tariff re.
formers on the question of tariff re-
duction, and particularly with respect
to the bill recently framed by the Pro-
lection Democrats. The letter wss
unobtsinable and it is said will not bs
made public until reply cau be
draf ed. 1t is learned, however, thai
the latter, while couched in the most
cordial terms, expresses the entire in
ability of the tariff reformers
to accept the internal revenue
features of the bill prepared
by the protection faction OF the Dem
ocratic party, snd expires ,es desire for
a much larger reduction in customs
duties tnsn the bill contains. Some
eighteen or twenty instances are
pointed out in which it Is alleged the
duties increased instead of decreased.
The speaker then, in beha of his
portion of the party, advanced prop.
ositlons upon which to unite the party
in favor of bill to reduce the surplus
revenue. The customs features
of this proposition are said
by the Randall men to
be but slight notifications
of the Morrison bill. 1t is prop Dsed
that most of the art Giles on the Nor
Iison Tree list he incorporated ia the
neS bill, including salt, lumber, wool,
fish, ttl. The letter Gays it s impos-
sible for the revenue refOrmers to
agree upon the internal revenue feat.
uIes of the r 'ndall bill without very
material notifications. Ga this point
the S eaker supges a Willingness to
greatly modify the methods OF
the collection Of taxes 80 as
TO reader the laws less op.
pressive, and declares readiness TO
reduce the taxes on tobacco aud
fruit brandies in certain cases, but not
to repeal the internal revenue taxes
on those articles. This portion OF the
letter is said to be in line with the
Breckenridge bill. The Randall men
held conference tonight, at which it
was decided not to accept the PROPOSE
ton advanced by Mr.. Carlisle and
Messrs. Randall, Warner and Hender.
son, OF North Carolina, were appointed
a comm ttes to draft reply to the
letter. A prominent member of the
protection wing of the party said to-
night that the letter left both sides of
the party almost as fer apart as ever
on the taliff question.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
Senate.-The Sensts passed the bill
to credit and pay the several States
and Territories and the District of